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In July 2006, APC is to hold a workshop at Johannesburg, which will crystal-gaze into the future and discuss the future of SAT3, a crucial submarine cable on which hinges Africa's chances to get a smoother ride to cyberspace.
Estimated to cost US $639 million when launched in April 2002, this undersea telecommunications cable links western and south Africa with Europe and Asia.
SAT3 fibre consortium has nine African country members, all of which are either publicly or privately-owned incumbent telcos. The nine...

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) condemns the unjust detention of free speech bloggers and journalists in Egypt.
Alaa Seif Al-Islam, a seasoned blogger and APC colleague, is one of four Egyptian online diarists being held in detention for criticising the current regime since May 7. In addition, APC has heard disturbing reports about violent actions taken by state security against several of the bloggers who were released from custody last week, only to be subsequently re-arrested....

APC launched our new-look Africa ICT Policy Monitor website in French on the final day of the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
APC wants an information society based on social justice and human rights, and that’s only going to happen if the people affected by the policies get involved in their development.
Collecting indispensable documentation on information and communications technologies (ICTs) since 2001 in English and since May 2004 in French, the new look French ‘Africa Monitor’ has an...

Under the incredulous eyes of the participants at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), journalists and human rights defenders were manhandled, insulted, and then violently beaten.
At 09.30 am on Monday, November 14, 2005, at the Place d’Afrique in Tunis, more than 30 plainclothes policemen impatiently awaited international and Tunisian delegates and members of civil society.
Omar Mestiri, Director of the online magazine Kalima and a founder member of the National Council for Freedom in Tunisia (...

Citizens’ Summit on the Information Society (CSIS)
Tunis, November 16-18, 2005
First announcement and call for support
CSIS Press release ­ October 24, 2005
A Citizens’ Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) will be held in Tunis, on November 16-18, 2005, coinciding with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
The CSIS will be another milestone in the long tradition of UN conferences and Summits being complemented with events organized by citizen groups. Previous such events met with great success,...

For young people living in poverty in coastal Kenya, surfing the internet and learning how to use computers make most sense when these skills mean better economic opportunities and work-readiness. In recognition of this, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) announced on May 26 that the winner of the APC Africa Hafkin Communications Prize for 2004-5 is the “Global Education Partnership - Wundanyi” in Kenya.
"If it were not for GEP, I would not have learned to use a computer," Jostinah...

NO EMBARGO
PRESS RELEASE
April 11 2005
NEW GENDER AND ICT POLICY WEBSITE HELPS WOMEN MAKE ICT POLICY A PRIORITY
PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Gender and technology activists, the gender and ICTs and to offer a practical tool for ICT advocates, especially women’s organisations and movements to ensure that ICT policy meets their needs and does not infringe on their rights.
“ICTs can assist in bringing food to the table or in promoting a reproductive rights agenda,” says Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng of the ISIS - Women's...

"Connectivity is a term referring to the means by which people are connected to or are able to access communications channels such as the internet, email, computer and people networks."
The theme for this year's Hafkin Prize recognises community initiatives that use the internet and other digital communication networks to access markets, skills and opportunities to derive real economic benefits.
The CRITERIA by which entries will be judged by our international jury include:
1. Positive economic...

APC condemns the actions by US and European law enforcement agencies to seize independent online news service Indymedia’s web servers, which has led to the closure of more than 21 of the more than 140 Indymedia web sites worldwide since October 7.
“We are disturbed by the apparently arbitrary and extreme measures taken to silence an independent internet-based source of information,” said Anriette Esterhuysen, APC’s Executive Director. “This is a violation of freedom of expression across international frontiers...